Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix regression caused for lookup helpers API changes

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:15:30 +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> The lookup helpers API was changed by merge of vfs-6.16-rc1.async.dir to
> pass a non-const qstr pointer argument to lookup_one*() helpers.
> 
> All of the callers of this API were changed to pass a pointer to temp
> copy of qstr, except overlays that was passing a const pointer to
> dentry->d_name that was changed to pass a non-const copy instead
> when doing a lookup in lower layer which is not the fs of said dentry.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] ovl: fix regression caused for lookup helpers API changes
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/339740d5d1cd